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Similarly, you only lose your GI Bill benefit WRT to NROTC if you go scholarship option.

Peer pressure.

The sweet gig out of there was the brief stint in Citations (aka T-47s for the unwashed) before the switch back to Sabreliners.

Must...resist...comment... Spoken like a true PPC, Zab. :D

Exactly my point. "You know this is the last 55k weight board shot he'll be rogering up in this platform..." WTF? We've become Madden-ized.

I would think it's tougher for a Marine spouse considering all the garden spots in metropolitan areas like NC and SC go, but a lot of it will depend on her career field. Even w/ larger cities as is usually the case for the Navy side, it's no cakewalk considering you may not be there for more...

That's because for each possible accomplishment someone has to bring up that it'll be the last time for the Tomcat, i.e. "last time...under lights...indoors...on astroturf...on a Tuesday...with the designated hitter rule..." etc.

"You'll never get stars on your collar by sticking one thumb in your mouth and the other up your butt and waiting for someone to yell 'switch.'" Probably the most brown-shoeish black-shoe O-6 I've ever met used that in a staff meeting one day. As my old boss, we could have used him on the...

And considering there's an ATM across the street and the BOQ is directly behind it, it's no wonder the club is open late, the food is good, and the beer is cheap. When the air wing's there, it's 99.9% standing room only (just as a good O'club should be). For those who think it's all dead, the...

Lay off the guy...The View was a repeat that day. Sheesh.

Funny...we didn't notice the helo pics...

That's one below for headwork and one below for SA. Shouldn't have even mentioned it to the XO - just done it. "Hey, boys will be boys..." :D

Nice find...nice post...

Hoov can relate to this: about 150 nm from the boat in the Malacca Strait when a CLA light lights up on the MCP (in the S-3, that can mean a potential for uncommanded wing/tail fold). That was a slow, methodical, "DFW" flight all the way back to the boat. Turned out to be a prox switch had...

^Yeah, and she wanted to know if he wanted to make something of it, followed with "I'm Rick James, b!tch!"

Kind of how throwing a mid-30s, GED-totin', aviator into the CA university system does the same thing... :D

"If I don't get this LOX cart back, the safety officer's gonna have my a$$." Followed by: "Boy, I'm gonna have your a$$..." Yep, definitely not PC these days but good for a quick laugh if you'd never seen it before.

Yeah, 'cause your AWs of all people would NEVER need access. Your IT guys are retards (and that's w/ all due respect to real live retards who might draw offense at the comparison).

As a former QAO, I was waiting on all the broken/lost tool reports to sign. "Conducted thorough search of work area..."

^I shot a guy with it once. And it went through the guy, and the wall, and a tree outside, and a squirrel...

Yep, two tours there and haven't coughed 'em a dime. They can get bent. :D

You're a good man HAL...saw that pic a while back and been looking for it since. :)

Shack... :D

I might have seen one around. I've known two VS guys (NFO) who switched to the "doc side" and have run into them both since I commissioned. Kay Hire was an NFO at VP-62 (her name's public record from the NASA site so no panicking to edit) when I was at -62 in '94, and she's now an astronaut...

Not a huge fan unless they eliminate the requirement to carry every version of every dress uniform on deployment. Don't get me wrong - I agree w/ our resident ha'ole - they do look good. Seems as if TFU is working in reverse though. The point was to make seabags smaller not add to what we...

I was thinking the same thing. Figure somewhere out around Brown Field / Otay Mesa would be perfect. Then the air traffic could wave at the air traffic for Tijuana Int'l since it's right across the border. They'd have to put those illegal alien caution signs like they have on I-5 on all the...

We're equal opportunity dealers of hate and discontent. :D

Back on track - the whole issue was a local gov't coming in to move its flight ops for its heavy flight loading onto a military base. There's plenty of dual use fields now, but most only involve a limited amount of mil on a civilian field (i.e. Ellington) or limited civ on a mil field (i.e...

It is Honolulu.

They man the drink cart and squeeze food from the packages so the pilots don't have to exert themselves. :)

Places like Eglin pull it off, but the volume of commercial traffic pales at what SD has to deal with. Miramar is a convenient location for them and wouldn't require them to buld a new field from scratch. Personally, I think they should build it out toward Santee or so. My personal opinion is...

Yeah, but it's gonna require an F-14 crew to come pick them up after they autorotate into the water due to a tail rotor failure.

I had a smarta$$ reply based on Fezz's question, but to answer it - yes. There are NFO astronauts. :)

Pretty much a non-factor. The Navy and MC have already said (more eloquently), "Pack sand." San Diego and their committee have no say in the matter. Silly local government people... Ranks up there with "strenuously object."

^Sure, as long as we can fit them all with matching jogging suits and sneakers too (a la Heaven's Gate).

Used to live at the south end of Orange Park (Middleburg street address - that far south) before a lot of the development really started going on. Roommate and I would watch night launches from the front yard for as long as we could see it. After, we'd go look at the NASA channel on cable to...

Ahh yes, black flag days, and the daily electrical storm in the summer. I remember 1-5 day when my supposed bad a$$ MAA who was going to show me up (RCPO) wussed out like a total pansy. He was a multiple re-roll from then on. Loser.

Yep, and Skype just sent me an email they'd credited me w/ an hour of free international calling. They're a pretty sweet deal.

Remember, kids - no cameras. :D

^ Yep, was thinking Ops Flying Club myself...

Ranks right up there with "Make sure every 'social event' involves liberal use of a camera and/or videotape to the maximum extent possible."

Gotta go w/ Fly on Red Storm Rising. Co-written with Tom Clancy by Larry Bond - the same former Navy O who developed the Harpoon wargame series used to teach tactics. The publisher only wanted one name on the cover. Bond has written several full length novels of his own (Vortex, Cauldron, and...

Hey, like I said, it's a shot in the dark. You'd be surprised what kind of records the Navy keeps. If they don't, you're no worse off.

"There's a man on the wing!!"

Fly what you can, log what you need. :D

"Well, that's one louder, isn't it?"

I was a 28 year old Ensign - I've got him beat (but I was also an enlisted guy for 8 years). There are no "reserve fighter pilots in training" that part-time life as loan officers. UCMJ doesn't allow for wearing designations/insignia/decorations just because you're dissatisfied with your real...

Simple - just ask for ID. Either he's got one or he doesn't. If he does, he'll show it ("'Scuse me while I whip this out.") There's no such thing as a "part-time new-guy instructor who moonlights at Washington Mutual as a loan officer because he has so much free time." He's a tool. Give him...

Evidently bucking for a Tweedale scholarship.